1. Chatfield Senior High Department of Physics
Lightning
Chatfield Senior High Department of Physics

2. How lightning forms

3. How lightning forms

4. How lightning forms

5. In summary….
Lightning is due to correcting a charge imbalance from the ground to a cloud
Lightning has two parts…A leader (ground to cloud) and a return stroke (cloud to ground) that our eye can’t distinguish

6. Lightning Safety There is no charge inside a hollow sphere
(Video reference: Lightning hitting a plane)
Lightning rod: Prevents charge from building up in the first place
In an open field with lightning…go to lowest place possible. Do not talk on a telephone.
Go inside something metal.

7. Ribbon Lightning (Striking Building)

8. Lightning Rods

9. Lightning Airplane

10. Lightning?

11. Tesla Coil and Faraday Cage

12. Lightning research… How does lightning truly form?
Launch rockets into a lightning cloud with attached
Wire for a conducting pathway.
What happens with minerals that are struck with lightning…Fulgurite